Ship UI 100x faster with Claude Code

Why most teams get mediocre UI from AI tools

You know a screen feels cluttered. You know users need “some kind of menu thing.” You don’t know whether to ask for a sidebar, command palette, accordion, drawer, tabs, popover, or split-pane.

So you type “make it better.” And Claude returns the first plausible thing. It looks like a prototype.

HackerX gives you the language to ask for outcomes — and the verification loop to know you got them.

What you get

The master prompt

A 12-step prompt that turns Claude Code into a senior product designer, UX strategist, and front-end architect. Copy it. Paste it. Watch it explore your repo before talking. Read it →

42 patterns named

A vocabulary cheat sheet across navigation, disclosure, dashboard, productivity, layout, and feedback. Each row is a sentence stem you can drop into a prompt. Open the cheat sheet →

A skill that runs the loop

The ui-pattern-picker skill activates on vague requests, returns three options with tradeoffs, and asks for approval before coding. Install in 10 seconds →

Verification you can trust

Typecheck. Lint. Responsive at 375 / 768 / 1280. Keyboard nav. Focus visible. Screenshots. “Done” doesn’t mean “compiled.” The 8-step OS →

The 100x workflow

Explore  →  Diagnose  →  Generate options  →  Pick a direction
   →  Plan  →  Implement small  →  Verify  →  Teach yourself the vocabulary

You don’t ask Claude Code to make the dashboard better. You ask it to act like a product designer, UX strategist, front-end engineer, accessibility reviewer, and QA tester — all in one workflow.

See it in action

Four sample apps designed using the HackerX workflow — different stacks, different audiences, the same loop.

Northstar — sales dashboard Dashboard shell, KPI cards with deltas, sortable deals, activity rail.

Cipher — settings redesign Progressive disclosure: tabs + accordions for 47 fields without the clutter.

Halo — AI analytics drawer Right-side context-aware assistant with streaming, tool-calls, suggested actions.

Routebox — mobile dispatcher Glance-readable cards, bottom nav, big tap targets — not desktop responsive.

See all four →

Read it in this order

00 — Start Here Welcome, prerequisites, your first session.

01 — Foundations What vibe coding is. Why explore → plan → implement → verify wins.

02 — Master Prompts The 12-step master prompt and why each line is load-bearing.

03 — UI/UX Vocabulary 42 patterns. Six categories. One filterable reference.

04 — Modern UI Stack shadcn/ui, Radix, Tailwind v4, Storybook, Figma Make, AI Elements.

05 — Prompt Library Ten expert prompts you can paste tonight.

08 — Demonstrations Four full walkthroughs from vague idea → shipped UI.

11 — Final OS The eight steps that tie it all together.

Install the skill in your repo

npx hackerx init

That drops CLAUDE.md and .claude/skills/ui-pattern-picker/ into your project. Open Claude Code. The next ambiguous UI request gets three options instead of one mediocre one.

Who this is for

• Founders designing apps without a designer on staff.
• Engineers who want to ship UI that doesn’t look like a prototype.
• Designers who want to move 10x faster by directing Claude Code.
• PMs who want to learn the actual language of UI/UX.
• Anyone stuck saying “make it better” instead of naming the pattern.

The promise

Stop asking Claude Code to “make it better.” Know the name of every UI pattern you’ve been pointing at vaguely. Get three design directions for every screen instead of one mediocre one. Have a verification loop that runs every time. Reuse components instead of inventing new ones. Teach yourself the vocabulary as you ship.

That’s the difference between vibe coding and product-level AI development.

Start the course →